LOL!
I know what you mean, Carrie.
I went to look at one thing - and a half hour later, I was STILL looking at videos!
Nancy
the shows that go on...
i survived.
i feel better than i thought i would.
But i have to leave here at 9:30 to go to Ridgefield for a matinee. Yuck.
But it's allright, it's okay - we'll live to see another day!
Rah Amy! Go Amy go! Gimme an A. A! Gimme an M. M! Gimme an Y. Y! Whaddya get? AMY!! xx, Carrie
Yeah for Amy!
Thanks Nancy! That was great.
Hi Amy! So this is where you have been hiding and it sounds like you have been very busy. Keep up the good work! Eleanor
i can't believe that INSANE week is over!!!!
whew.
So, of course i had signed on to work a kiddie show at SCSU today at 8am. (Not my best time of day by any circumstance.) And hey - it was supposed to be one show - out by 12:30 or so, but it turned out to be 2 shows (out at 2:30). So, more $ - always a plus, particularly given my IRS issues... but geez am i tired. And sore. i don't think i'll do anything else useful today...
: )
Get some rest. Good day for it.
i think i am going to buy the director and some of the other guys packets of "Disco Mix" marigolds for a closing night present...
: )
Hmm. Speaking of which, if any of you are going to WalMart in the near future, would you check and see if they have any "Disco Mix" marigold seeds? They are the Burpee Select kind, and they cost $1.50 each. i have bought "my" Walmart out of them, and i still need anywhere from 8 - 12 more.
i will pay if anyone finds and can send them to me to be here by next Thursday...
Or anything else called "disco" or "boogie" or something like that. i've been checking for other "disco" plants/seeds, but most of them on PF are daylilies (imagine that!) Though i think i might be looking for one of those for the director...
Anyway, let me know - thanks!
amy
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You could repackage them in DG seed packets ~~ if you get really desperate? or give half the people a gold spray-painted shovel or something? (grasping at straws for you, here, because I NEVER go to Walmart or any other store, for that matter.) (I could try Home Depot tomorrow (Friday 4/11), they have Burpee seeds I think, and i have a $10 off $50 coupon. Surely I can come up with $46 other things to buy - all my pots broke, and DH bought seed starting mix instead of potting soil! Do you want me to look there, Amy, D-mail me? xx, Carrie
They match with the DG background! You're set then, Amy? xx, Carrie
i am still looking for, i think, 8 more. i have to go count. i found some "Disco Yellow" which aren't as pretty, but will do...
Thanks again, Sherrie! i'll send your check tomorrow. (Ashamedly - i was playing in the dirt all day, and didn't get anything else - like going to the PO - done...)
Playing in the dirt counts as constructive, around here! x, C
O, my aching back. i think i played a little too long. But it is supposed to rain for the next few days...
And Saturday i am in focus all day for a show i am co-designing with DH.
Tell me about it, Amy! I had to 'rest' today - spread Milorganite, put the screens back in, work on the pond, go food shopping with my six year old, and then clean the house. Still it was easier on me than the past two days. I have heat on my back right now.
Yikes. Not so much on the resting, eh?
i took one of my perscription muscle relaxers. Only problem is, it relaxes all my muscleZzzzzzz. Er, what was i typing?
Actually, my hands hurt too. How stupid is that?
Of all those jobs, food-shopping with 6-y. o. sounds the most onerous! My 17 DD just found out she got into a college she actually wants to go to, with a big merit-based scholarship! (Speaking of kids....) xx, Carrie
Not very. My hands were killing me.
Congrats to your daughter, Carrie. Where is she going?
http://www.prescott.edu/about/index.html
Prescott College, in Arizona. It's supposed to be all about designing your own program, independent kids only need apply, social activism and environmental preservation, or maybe social preservation and environmental activism? I had never heard of it before she applied there, and I've still never seen a printed catalog, although I think she has one somewhere. xx, Carrie
Congrats, Carrie. The "so happy I got in" college dance is always exciting. Now all those months of morbid angst are over...until some other life crisis next week. Our DD graduated from Smith last May. She loved everything about it; even the weather. Her first real snow experience.
Here is the show we are designing lights for:
http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x3357.xml
Quinnipiac University's Theater for Community will present the original play:
Whitewashed: The Rough Draft
April 17 -- 20
Long Wharf Theatre's Stage II
Whitewashed is a multimedia production with documentary videos, images, theatrical scenes and monologues. "We'll explore why, as human beings, we seem hardwired to focus on our differences rather than our commonalities," said Crystal Brian, chair of the visual and performing arts department and director of the play. "We'll examine prejudice, privilege, community and diversity from different perspectives by conducting interviews with people in the Quinnipiac and New Haven communities and examining our own experiences, ideas and feelings."
Students from the department of theater and the School of Communications, along with communications professor Rebecca Abbott, created the multimedia play with help from West Haven Veterans Affairs, the New Haven police department, the New Haven homeless shelter Columbus House and other groups in New Haven.
Performances are at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 17; Friday, April 18; and Saturday, April 19. The performance on Sunday, April 20, is at 2 p.m. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for students and seniors. Tickets will be sold at the door. Group rates are available for groups of more than 10. To reserve tickets, call 203-582-3500.
Amy, That sounds interesting, and costs less than my daughter's school play tickets!
Carrie, Cograts to your daughter & you!
Will definitely be "interesting".
Got a semi-final script yesterday.
Gotta go focus lights for it now
(hahaha).
Thanks, David. (Shedding tears of relief as I speak.) Amy, it sounds very interesting - I wish I had the time or energy to do half the things that interest me, :-(. xx, Carrie
Whitewashed opens tonight.
The projections, supposedly an integral part of the production never worked until Tuesday night - the final dress - and then the sound didn't work. (For the final dress, we also only had 3 of 4 band members, one of whom was wearing a longsleeved white shirt instead of his "costume" of BLACK tshirt. This makes figuring the lighting for them kinda, um, difficult.) o, and one new piece was added.
Last night - the preview - finally projections had sound. (But the student SM had class, so her assistant was filling in. She did well, but i am definitely not familiar with the priority system at that school.) And i got to learn what scenes the band is underscoring for (mostly) the 1st time. So now i know when there is supposed to be light on them. i just have to go in and fix it.
sigh.
The kids have done a pretty great job of pulling it all together in an astonishingly short time, however. i can't wait to see how it plays to an audience of mostly college students - it tackles a lot of tough subjects. i think it has been a positive experience for the kids involved, though. i'm glad i've been a part of it - but also glad i am done with it after tonight!
Gosh, Amy, you certainly get involved with a lot of tough assignments! xx, Carrie
Break a leg!
Laurel
Yes, but whose, Laurel?
Perhaps the actor who, when the SM called a cue too early, stood in the dark to read a paragraph instead of moving to his next place, 8 ft away, where there was plenty o'light.
Carrie, i hope i am not sounding too pathetic - i love what i do, really. But there are frustrations, and in theatre, they can be rather, er, dramatic ones...
Good luck Amy!
Then tomorrow yopu are at the Schubert? (New Haven's)
Yopu?? Is that a group?
They are awesome!
Yes - tomorrow is the final performance of It's Raining Men!, and it is in front of the hometown crowd at the Shubert. (A little scary that it's been 2 weeks since the last one, usually there isn't a gap like that...)
Thank you everyone who looked for Disco Mix seeds for me - i think it will be a fun card substitute...
Hello!
i haven't been around much because i am in tech rehearsals for SCSU's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, which i am the assistant lighting designer for. It is my 3rd show in a row, and the LD is my DH, so we are both a little crazed right now (AND he is the tech director, so he has a LOT to deal with). But we do good work together i think. i have to head back over at about 2. i haven't even had more than 15 minutes at a time in the garden since Wednesday... Well, this opens tomorrow - then i get to start worrying because i don't know what is next.
The girl playing Hermia fell onstage Saturday afternoon and dislocated her knee - screaming, cursing, crying, ambulance, hospital, etc... She still wants to do the show, but it is VERY physical - lots of fighing, wrestling, jumping, swinging on ropes, etc. And it is on a raked stage, which makes it all even more chalenging. The director is spending all day today rehearsing with an understudy. It's upsetting. i've known this girl since we moved to CT - she is a grad student now, and doesn't do that much theatre anymore - but she is great, and no role could be more perfect for her, "Although she is but little, she is fierce"! i have never seen her down before.
Last night, 3 laptops disappeared from the building during the dinner break. The campus police kept implying that they were misplaced. (Really now - 3 different student's laptops misplaced at once?! i know people think theatre folks are flaky, but come on!) No other groups were in the building, but it isn't like it is totally locked down either. The dept chair, who is playing a small role, kept everyone after rehearsal - in costume - to search the theatre, and asked if everyone would show him their bags before leaving. He also implied that he'd be conducting a search of people's vehicles. i almost bit my tongue trying not to say, "You have GOT to be kidding me!" What kind of message is that?
Definitely the "Drama Department"!
amy
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Have fun, Amy! Been dreaming of midsummer for a while now.
Amy, how did your disco marigold party favors or thank you gifts work out? - Carrie
Gosh Amy. Where would drama be without the drama? Hopefully the dept. chair hasn't created a crime scene, with red tape, on the stage! This isn't what I had in mind when I said, "Break a leg". Can empathisize with what you are doing here as I have years of doing costumes for theater productions (just shoot me) before I started doing the traveling exhibits for Zap! Pow! Bam! Superheroes exhibit and the Sendak Wild Things. Only been a few years since my last production, but it's always an ulcer waiting to happen.
As you most assuredly know, the curtain goes up, the show happens, and everyone says, "You're wonderful...a genius". Next thing you know, despite the oaths, you're doing it again!
L
Well, our injured party went on tonight, after an afternoon of rehearsing and re-blocking the fight scenes. i am delighted and incredibly worried all at once. The director definitely found some creative solutions that do not involve bending her injured leg... Some of them are even funnier than the originals!
The photographer was there tonight - hopefully i'll have pictures soon! It really looks beautiful, although there are a million other things i want to do and fix. I know that Eric is the designer, and i am the assistant, but i also know that there are MANY things in the show that wouldn't look the way they do if it wasn't for me...
Yawn. It opens tomorrow, and i still have fixes to make during the day...
Hopefully back to the garden on Wednesday...
amy
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Pictures from Midsummer (at last).
Original director's vision was to be "a Maxfield Parrish world".
These are all my so-so ones taken from the sound booth - haven't seen the official ones yet...
"Steal forth thy father's house to-morrow night"
Hermia and Lysander plan to elope:
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